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Creed Leader Guide
What Christians Believe and Why
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
We’re all searching. Sometimes the search is easy: simply type a question and the answer pops up. But sometimes our questions are complicated, and the answers are difficult to see and harder to articulate. How do we discover and examine the truths that give meaning and purpose to life? Adam Hamilton...
by Adam Hamilton
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2014
More and more young adults have opted out of Christianity and the church. The reason? Christians.
When young adults talk about the problems they have with Christianity and the church, they often name certain attitudes and behaviors they believe are practiced too often by Christians: judging...
Why? Leader Guide
Making Sense of God's Will
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
Where is God when tragedy and suffering strike?
When the ground shakes, and a poor nation's economy is destroyed; when the waters rise, washing away a community's hopes and dreams; when a child suffers neglect and abuse; when violence tears apart nations; where is God; If God is all powerful,...
by Lucy Lind Hogan
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
Based on the Revised Common Lectionary and broadly ecumenical, this addition to the Just In Time!series provides: Sitting with the Text: Scripture commentary for each of the three lectionary years; Worship and Preaching Themes; Creating the Environment: ideas for decorating and preparing the worship...
Get Their Name
Grow Your Church by Building New Relationships
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Change your church culture. Create an outwardly focused environment where hospitality and invitation happen Sunday and every day of the week. This book offers five steps to help congregations go public with their faith—from service projects to sharing the faith with persons who want to know more...
Introducing the Uncommon Lectionary
Opening the Bible to Seekers and Disciples
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Lays out the plan for a collection of readings from Scripture designed for the needs of seekers and the unchurched.
The church has used lectionaries–lists of scriptures to be read on particular Sundays throughout the year–across its long history. Yet most lectionaries are inward-looking:...
Bounty
Ten Ways To Increase Giving At Your Church
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
Church leaders struggle with issues related to financial giving every year, in every economic climate. Most do not want to preach about the topic, and some don’t even like to think about it. The topic of financial giving is, for many, a perennial headache and an energy drain. Many church leaders...
The Greatest of These
Biblical Moorings of Love
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
God is love. Love one another. We teach these to children and new Christians, but what exactly do we mean (and do they hear) by love? Our culture offers a multitude of understandings and experiences through which the meaning of love can be filtered. We in the church can become sloppy in our proclamation...
by J. Ellsworth Kalas
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
"In the case of this book, I can tell you not only when it came to birth but also where. It was in a quite modest kitchen at 1506 Center Street in Sioux City, Iowa, over a period of years in the late 1930s. On a shelf in that kitchen, just above the stove, was a box of cards, each measuring roughly...
by Julie Yarbrough
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Daily Devotions for Your Grief Journey provides comforting and encouraging devotions for the first year of the grief journey. Each month begins with a short personal reflection by the author related to the month’s theme, followed by a Preparation Scripture and meditation that set the stage for the...
Choose Wisely, Live Fully
Lessons from Wisdom & Folly, the Two Women of Proverbs
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
The Book of Proverbs is a gold mine of divine wisdom. Author and speaker Donna Gaines applies that wisdom in very practical ways to the issues women face. Choose Wisely, Live Fully examines the blessings and curses associated with the choices made by the two women in Proverbs: Wisdom and Folly. Gaines...
Mercy & Melons
Praying the Alphabet
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
Mercy & Melons is a collection of lyrical meditations that encourage the reader to pray the alphabet. Each chapter focuses on a letter of the alphabet and an accompanying spiritual practice. By naming an everyday object and a theological theme readers are given elegant takeaways to spark the...
Start This, Stop That
Do the Things That Grow Your Church
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
We need less conventional wisdom and more creative leadership.
Not all of the advice you’ve heard on church growth works. Judging by results, most doesn’t. It’s time we re-evaluate the standard thinking on how to grow a church, especially considering new voices questioning the worth of...
I Am a Daughter of the Most High King
30 Daily Declarations for Women
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
Proverbs 18:21 tells us that the power of life and death is in our words, and nothing is more powerful than affirming who we are in Christ. Award-winning Gospel music artist Babbie Mason regularly shares with audiences worldwide a beautiful declaration she has written especially for women, and now...